Acception \Ac*cep"tion\, n. [L. acceptio a receiving, accepting: cf. F. acception.]

Acceptation; the received meaning. [Obs.]

Here the word ``baron'' is not to be taken in that restrictive sense to which the modern acception hath confined it. --Fuller.

Acception of persons or faces (Eccl.), favoritism; partiality. [Obs.]

--Wyclif.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)